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Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy Before Surgery in Treating Patients With Pancreatic Cancer


2016-12


2020-11-30


N/A


126

Study Overview

Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy Before Surgery in Treating Patients With Pancreatic Cancer

This randomized phase II trial studies how well combination chemotherapy (mFOLFIRINOX) with or without hypofractionated radiation therapy before surgery works in patients with pancreatic cancer that can be removed by surgery. Drugs used in combination chemotherapy, such as oxaliplatin, leucovorin calcium, fluorouracil, and irinotecan hydrochloride, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Hypofractionated radiation therapy delivers higher doses of radiation therapy over a shorter period of time and may kill more tumor cells and have fewer side effects. It is not yet known if combination chemotherapy is more effective with or without hypofractionated radiation therapy before surgery in treating patients with pancreatic cancer.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate and estimate 18 months overall survival (OS) rate of patients with borderline resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) receiving neoadjuvant therapy. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate and estimate the R0 resection rates in patients receiving each of the two multimodality treatment regimens. II. To evaluate and estimate the event-free survival in patients receiving each of the two multimodality treatment regimens. III. To evaluate and estimate the pathologic compete response (pCR) rates in patients receiving each of the two multimodality treatment regimens. IV. To assess the adverse events (AE) profile and safety of each treatment arm. TERTIARY OBJECTIVES: I. To test the effect of the rs2853564 vitamin D receptor (VDR) variant on OS rate and discover novel candidate genes associated with OS and severe toxicity of chemotherapy by using genome-wide genotyping approaches. II. To evaluate risk classification previously developed by Koay et al using normalized area under the enhancement curve (NAUC). III. To access prognostic value of NAUC ratio defined as post-neoadjuvant NAUC divided by pre-neoadjuvant therapy NAUC. IV. To evaluate risk classification previously developed by Koay et al using delta measure. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms. ARM A: Patients receive oxaliplatin intravenously (IV) over 2 hours, irinotecan IV over 90 minutes, and leucovorin calcium IV over 2 hours on day 1. Patients also receive fluorouracil IV continuously over 46-48 hours on days 1-2. Treatment repeats every 14 days for 8 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. ARM B: Patients receive oxaliplatin intravenously (IV) over 2 hours, irinotecan IV over 90 minutes, and leucovorin calcium IV over 2 hours on day 1. Patients also receive fluorouracil IV continuously over 46-48 hours on days 1-2. Treatment repeats every 14 days for 7 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients receive either stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) or hypofractionated image guided radiation therapy (HIGRT) on days 1-5 of course 8. SURGERY Within 4 to 8 weeks after the last dose of chemotherapy (arm A) or of radiation (arm B), patients considered surgical candidates for resection (after central review) will undergo surgery at the registering institution. ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY Within 4-12 weeks from the date of surgery, patients will receive oxaliplatin IV over 2 hours and leucovorin IV over 2 hours on day 1. Patients also receive fluorouracil IV continuously over 46-48 hours on days 1-2. Treatment repeats every 14 days for 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 16 weeks for 2 years, then every 6 months for 5 years.

  • Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
  • Borderline Resectable Adenocarcinoma of the Head of the Pancrease
  • RADIATION: radiation therapy
  • PROCEDURE: surgery
  • DRUG: mFOLFIRINOX
  • DRUG: FOLFOX
  • A021501
  • NCI-2016-00456 (REGISTRY Identifier) (REGISTRY: NCI Clinical Trial Reporting Program)

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates Results Reporting Dates Study Record Updates

2016-07-14  

2022-03-18  

2022-04-28  

2016-07-18  

2022-04-28  

2022-05-24  

2016-07-20  

2022-05-24  

2022-04  

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

Design Details

Primary Purpose:
Treatment


Allocation:
Randomized


Interventional Model:
Parallel


Masking:
None


Arms and Interventions

Participant Group/ArmIntervention/Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: mFOLFIRINOX + surgery + FOLFOX

Patients receive 8 cycles of mFOLFIRINOX. One cycle is 14 days. mFOLFIRINOX consists of oxaliplatin, irinotecan, leucovorin and 5-FU. Patients undergo surgery and receive 4 cycles of FOLFOX 4-12 weeks after surgery. FOLFOX consists of oxaliplatin, leucovo

PROCEDURE: surgery

DRUG: mFOLFIRINOX

  • oxaliplatin IV, irinotecan IV, leucovorin IV and 5-FU IV

DRUG: FOLFOX

  • oxaliplatin IV, leucovorin IV and 5-FU IV
EXPERIMENTAL: mFOLFIRINOX + radiation + surgery + FOLFOX

Patients receive 7 cycles of mFOLFIRINOX. One cycle is 14 days. mFOLFIRINOX consists of oxaliplatin, irinotecan, leucovorin and 5-FU. Patients receive radiation therapy then undergo surgery and receive 4 cycles of FOLFOX 4-12 weeks after surgery. FOLFOX c

RADIATION: radiation therapy

PROCEDURE: surgery

DRUG: mFOLFIRINOX

  • oxaliplatin IV, irinotecan IV, leucovorin IV and 5-FU IV

DRUG: FOLFOX

  • oxaliplatin IV, leucovorin IV and 5-FU IV
Primary Outcome MeasuresMeasure DescriptionTime Frame
Overall Survival (OS) RateDefined as the percentage of patients who are alive at 18 months after randomization divided by the total number of evaluable patients in each arm. An evaluable patient is defined as any patient who signed informed consent, deemed eligible by central review and received any protocol-defined treatment. 95% confidence interval will be estimated based on standard method. Chi-squared test (or Fisher's exact test if the data in contingency table is sparse) will be used to compare 18 month OS rates among treatment arms. OS within each arm will be summarized by Kaplan-Meier method. Median, 1-year and 2-year rates will be estimated based on Kaplan-Meier curves.18 months
Secondary Outcome MeasuresMeasure DescriptionTime Frame
Residual Tumor (R)0 Resection RateDefined as the percentage of patients in whom an achieved R0 resection was achieved during surgery.24 months
Event-free SurvivalDefined as time from randomization to the first documentation of event where events considered are 1) disease progression, per RECIST, prior to surgery, 2) surgery with R2 resection, 3) recurrent disease following surgery, or 4) death due to any cause. Will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier in each arm and compared between treatment groups using the log-rank test. The correlation between pathologic complete response (pCR) status and event-free survival time will be assessed by Cox model with landmark approach.4 years and 7 months
Pathologic Complete Rate (pCR) RateDefined as the percentage of patients in whom a pCR was confirmed by histopathologic review of the surgical specimen. Chi-square test (or Fisher's exact test if the data in contingency table is sparse) will be used to compare pCR resection rate between two treatment arms. Sensitivity analysis will be conducted among patients in cohort 1) and cohort 2). The association between pCR rate and OS/progression free survival (PFS) will be assessed by log-rank test and Cox model.24 months
Incidence of Adverse Events Assessed Per Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Version 4 and the Patient-Reported Outcomes Version of the CTCAEOverall adverse event rates will be compared between treatment groups using Chi-square test (or Fisher's exact test if the data in contingency table is sparse).1 year

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person’s general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:
ALL

Sexes Eligible for Study:
18 Years

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

    Inclusion Criteria:

  • Confirmation of radiographic stage as borderline resectable disease by real-time Alliance central radiographic review
  • No prior chemotherapy or radiation for pancreatic cancer
  • No definitive resection of pancreatic cancer
  • Chronic concomitant treatment with strong inhibitors of cytochrome p450, family 3, subfamily a, polypeptide 4 gene (CYP3A4) is not allowed on this study; patients on strong CYP3A4 inhibitors must discontinue the drug for 14 days prior to registration on the study
  • Chronic concomitant treatment with strong CYP3A4 inducers is not allowed; patients must discontinue the drug 14 days prior to the start of study treatment
  • No grade >= 2 neuropathy
  • No known Gilbert's syndrome or known homozygosity for UGAT1A1*28 polymorphism
  • No uncontrolled gastric ulcer disease (grade 3 gastric ulcer disease) within 28 days of registration
  • Not pregnant and not nursing; for women of childbearing potential only, a negative pregnancy test done =< 7 days prior to registration is required
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 or 1
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count >= 100,000/mm^3
  • Creatinine =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) or
  • Calculated (calc.) creatinine clearance > 45 mL/min
  • Total bilirubin =< 2.0 mg/dL
  • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) / alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 2.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • Sky Foundation

  • STUDY_CHAIR: Matthew Katz, MD, FACS, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Publications

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General Publications

  • Snyder RA, Zemla TJ, Shi Q, Segovia D, Ahmad SA, O'Reilly EM, Herman JM, Katz MHG. Postoperative Adverse Events Following Neoadjuvant Therapy and Surgery for Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer in a Phase 2 Clinical Trial (Alliance A021501). Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 Oct;31(10):7033-7042. doi: 10.1245/s10434-024-15670-6. Epub 2024 Jul 15.
  • Katz MHG, Shi Q, Meyers J, Herman JM, Chuong M, Wolpin BM, Ahmad S, Marsh R, Schwartz L, Behr S, Frankel WL, Collisson E, Leenstra J, Williams TM, Vaccaro G, Venook A, Meyerhardt JA, O'Reilly EM. Efficacy of Preoperative mFOLFIRINOX vs mFOLFIRINOX Plus Hypofractionated Radiotherapy for Borderline Resectable Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas: The A021501 Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2022 Sep 1;8(9):1263-1270. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.2319.
  • Katz MHG, Ou FS, Herman JM, Ahmad SA, Wolpin B, Marsh R, Behr S, Shi Q, Chuong M, Schwartz LH, Frankel W, Collisson E, Koay EJ, Hubbard JM, Leenstra JL, Meyerhardt J, O'Reilly E; Alliance for Clinical Trials on Oncology. Alliance for clinical trials in oncology (ALLIANCE) trial A021501: preoperative extended chemotherapy vs. chemotherapy plus hypofractionated radiation therapy for borderline resectable adenocarcinoma of the head of the pancreas. BMC Cancer. 2017 Jul 27;17(1):505. doi: 10.1186/s12885-017-3441-z.